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I think.you could get away with this easy, just have the stuff lined up. I don't think having stuff in a line would be a problem as far as the on off coming out of the hole etc, as most people who will buy these know the on off only fits in one place... just another thought, I think it will flow well too and maximize the 36" wide space

Freedy500: I was laying low for a while with this one... My main concern is if we can use psd files or not. It would be a lot easier to use jpg/png files instead of hand converting each part to an eps file like http://www.tekmat.com Taking the hi-res pictures of each part and chopping them up together in photoshop shouldn't be too hard. Converting them to illustrator (eps file) means I will have to hand trace each part and make it look good which will take a lot of time.

I would love to see how many people are truely interested in this project and also how much they would cost.

Freedy500: I was laying low for a while with this one... My main concern is if we can use psd files or not. It would be a lot easier to use jpg/png files instead of hand converting each part to an eps file like http://www.tekmat.com Taking the hi-res pictures of each part and chopping them up together in photoshop shouldn't be too hard. Converting them to illustrator (eps file) means I will have to hand trace each part and make it look good which will take a lot of time.

I would love to see how many people are truely interested in this project and also how much they would cost.

Freedy500: I was laying low for a while with this one... My main concern is if we can use psd files or not. It would be a lot easier to use jpg/png files instead of hand converting each part to an eps file like http://www.tekmat.com Taking the hi-res pictures of each part and chopping them up together in photoshop shouldn't be too hard. Converting them to illustrator (eps file) means I will have to hand trace each part and make it look good which will take a lot of time.

I would love to see how many people are truely interested in this project and also how much they would cost.

I don't know how familier you are with how a lot of companies make these kinds of things and why they tend to require illustrator files. So please don't take offense to what I'm saying, I am merely repeating what a artist friend of mine said.. Anyway, from what she said, they want to use illustrator files because they print or lay down color for these kinds of products one color at a time. And that is how illustrator is set up. You can selectively choose which color to print on the product, so if you want something left off.. You just don't print it. You could possible achieve the same effect in psd by usin layers though. But it would still take time to seperate all the colors into different layers and the shops "print" machines would have to be able to accept those file types.

I don't know how familier you are with how a lot of companies make these kinds of things and why they tend to require illustrator files. So please don't take offense to what I'm saying, I am merely repeating what a artist friend of mine said.. Anyway, from what she said, they want to use illustrator files because they print or lay down color for these kinds of products one color at a time. And that is how illustrator is set up. You can selectively choose which color to print on the product, so if you want something left off.. You just don't print it. You could possible achieve the same effect in psd by usin layers though. But it would still take time to seperate all the colors into different layers and the shops "print" machines would have to be able to accept those file types.

It's not just that. Illustrator files are vector images and they'd scale from itty bitty to enormous without a loss of fidelity or aliasing around the curves. That's why print places use EPS files in printing. (Worked for a publisher. )

how about people get a design submitted by Friday, and then we can put those pics, like what Bunny shown, in a poll and see what we comes out of it. we can then try to get a size and maybe, just maybe by tax day, get an order started by May 1st.

I click the link, and see something dark in the bottom recess. Then I spot this: "Large magnet in the recessed section at the front keeps screws, nuts and other metal items from rolling off the work surface"

If there were two drawings submitted, one for xvalve another for classic valve. And we needed a min order of 50, 25 wanted xvalve 25 wanted classic. Would they consider that one order and min qty ok or two orders and min not ok?

5min idea.... There are so many ways to display the diagram. Plz use your imagination

Bunny this is amazing! (IMO at least). I can see this being perfect! Now I am wondering if there is anyway if we could throw the classic in their and possibly move down the LVL 7. I can see this as being something great to work off of.

If there were two drawings submitted, one for xvalve another for classic valve. And we needed a min order of 50, 25 wanted xvalve 25 wanted classic. Would they consider that one order and min qty ok or two orders and min not ok?

I just sent an email and they verified that the minimum order is for one design. it is more than 50 too.